Firefox vs. SP2's IE?

Anonymous Coward asks: "I was at my grandpa's house today, and I came across a somewhat unsettling issue. He is a user of Internet Explorer. I was talking about Firefox with him, and it turns out that he has had no trouble with popups since SP2 came out, he doesn't multitask enough to benefit from tabbed browsing, and he doesn't care about safety/privacy concerns. On top of that, I ran a test and found no difference in load/download speeds between the two browsers on his computer. This brought me to an interesting point. For someone like him, is there any benefit to be gained from using Firefox? On top of that, are there any people who are actually better off sticking with IE?"

Comments

Re:Three main benefits

[ClioCJS]

standards-based? WTF. Either it renders as the author intended or it does not. IE does a better job at doing this. Firefox didn't even render slashdot right for me -- the slashdot sidebar obscured the first column of text in the articles. Ugly. Not as intended.

Firefox will hopefully win in the long run, but clinging to "standards" too tightly means mis-rendering non-standard pages. It's an imperfect world and I think IE handles imperfect pages better.